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Family's Trip to the Movies Takes Unpleasant Turn

Emily Colson, author of “Dancing with Max,” recently shared a troubling experience she had at a movie theater in New England with her 22-year-old son who has autism. In the post “Darkness in a Theater” on specialneedsparenting.net, Emily details the negative reactions other moviegoers had to her son’s exclamations during the previews which ranged from excitement to overstimulation. She says she expected frustration from the rest of the theater but then things got worse. Following a confrontation with a man and woman, Emily had had enough and began to exit the theater with her son. That’s when the audience began to clap and make remarks about her son’s autism. Emily describes the situation as her own personal horror film. Read her full blog post here.

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